A64642:471
Eighteen sermons preached in Oxford 1640 of conversion, unto God. Of redemption, & justification,…
Eighteen sermons preached in Oxford 1640 of conversion, unto God. Of redemption, & justification, by Christ. By the Right Reverend James Usher, late Arch-bishop of Armagh in Ireland. Published by Jos: Crab. Will: Ball. Tho: Lye. ministers of the Gospel, who writ them from his mouth, and compared their copies together. With a preface concerning the life of the pious author, by the Reverend Stanley Gower, sometime chaplain to the said bishop.Eighteen sermons preached in Oxford 1640 of conversion, unto God. Of redemption, & justification, by Christ. By the Right Reverend James Usher, late Arch-bishop of Armagh in Ireland. Published by Jos: Crabb. Will: Ball. Tho: Lye. ministers of the Gospel, who writ them from his mouth, and compared their copies together. With a preface concerning the life of the pious author, by the Reverend Stanly Gower, sometime chaplain to the said bishop.
London: printed by S. Griffin for Will, 1660
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
2. The punishment: and that's a terrible one: He that eats and drinks unworthily, eats and drinks damnation to himself: damnation, that's somewhat hard, the word in the Margin is better, [Greek or Hebrew], judgement. True, there are such as so come, that they deserve to eat condemnation to themselves, as openly profane ones, in whom it's high treason, being Gods vowed enemies, to take his Privy Seal, and put it to so vile a use: this I say deserves damnation; but then others there are that have faith and repentance, and a portion in Christ, yet coming unworthily to this feast, eat judgement to themselves: that is a judgement of chastisement. There is a twofold judgement.
2. The punishment: and that's a terrible one: He that eats and drinks unworthily, eats and drinks damnation to himself: damnation, that's somewhat hard, the word in the Margent is better, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, judgement. True, there are such as so come, that they deserve to eat condemnation to themselves, as openly profane ones, in whom it's high treason, being Gods vowed enemies, to take his Privy Seal, and put it to so vile a use: this I say deserves damnation; but then others there are that have faith and repentance, and a portion in Christ, yet coming unworthily to this feast, eat judgement to themselves: that is a judgement of chastisement. There is a twofold judgement.
1. One of revenge: for those that put Gods Seal to a wrong evidence, having no faith to make Christ his portion: in such a one its high treason to put forth his hand to this tree of life.
2. Another of chastisement, for such a one as hath repentance, and yet comes too unmannerly, and carries himself too carelessly at the Lords Table: at this the Apostle aims in the Text; not at that judgement of condemnation, but at a judgement to prevent damnation; And this appears in the words following, where we shall find the Apostle recounting up the particulars of this judgement of chastisement, For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep, ver. 30. Mark what's the judgement he eats: why this? he's cast upon his bed of sickness into a Consumption perchance, or some other corporal disease; a cause Physicians seldom or